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Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record


From: Rahul Dhesi
Subject: Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:49:36 +0000 (UTC)
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David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

>No.  The copyright owner has the right to demand that the buyer gets the
>source.  The buyer does not have this right.

>If I pay at a merry-go-round for a ride of my child, the child does not
>get the right to demand a ride.  _I_ get the right to demand that it
>gets a ride.

Not a good analogy.  The child as beneficiary to a contract could almost
certainly enforce it. (Although, of course, it would have to find some
other parent or guardian to represent it in court, if you failed to do
so yourself.)
-- 
Rahul
http://rahul.rahul.net/


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